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Ingels, Jasper Clayton

Judge Jasper Clayton Ingels, was born in Harrison Twp., Gallia County, March 21, 1855. He is the son of Jesse and Mary Waddell Ingels. His father came from Pennsylvania in Meigs and thence to Gallia County to Meigs county thence to Gallia County. He was a farmer and a Methodist preacher-a circuit rider. His mother was a daughter of Wm. Waddell a former sheriff of this county. Judge Ingels’ grandfather was Thomas Ingels, who with his brothers Matthew and William, were banished from England about 1777 for political reasons. They all came to Philadelphia, William going later to Kentucky and Matthew to Virginia. J. C. Ingels attended the Harrison township school and later the Gallia Academy, finishing his school days in 1873. He became a school teacher and taught fifty six terms, mostly in the lower end of the county. In 1899, he was elected County Recorder on the Republican ticket and left the schoolroom. Friday evening to assume his office on Monday. After the terms as recorder he was nominated in 1896, and elected Probate Judge, an unusual honor and served two terms in that office, serving twelve years in the Court House. A year before his last term expired he became vice-president on the National Bank and on retiring from office was elected Cashier of the bank a position he still holds and has filled with rare tact. On April 9, 1874, he married Emma C. Gilbert, daughter of Theodore and Emily Burlingame Gilbert, in Green township-a marriage from which came the following family of children.

Stella Corinne, wife of Chauncey H. Booton. Jesse Jasper, a resident of Pt. Pleasant. Clyde Clarkson, bookkeeper of the First national Bank. Bert Theodore, at business college. Chauncey, at business college. Marie, at home. Judge Ingels is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason, who has risen to the rank of Knight Templar in the York Rite bodies of Gallipolis. He is President of the Board of City Examiners, President of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library and Vice President of the Buckeye Building and Loan. In his younger days Judge Ingels was noted for his cleverness as a baseball player and was sought as a player at many points in Southern Ohio. His talent for this sport has been inherited in large degree by his sons Clyde, Bert and Chauncey.

Transcribed from the Gallipolis Tribune 2 July 1909 By Marjorie L. Gilliam Wood